Improvement in spring bed-bottoms



0. T. SEGA-R. Spring Bed-Bottom.

No. 222,955. Patented Dec. 23, 1879.

WITNESSES l VENTOR N,PETERS, PHQTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES T. SEGAR, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT'IN SPRING BED-BOTTOMS Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,955, dated December 23, 1879; application filed To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. SEGAR, of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of a New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Spring Bed-Bottoms; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference of a side view of my improved bed-springto the upper slats. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional View, showing one of the buttons; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the spring and upper slats.

This invention has relation to improvements in spring bed-bottoms.

The nature of the invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter shown, described, and set forth in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a spiral bed-spring of the usual form as'to its general construction, and arranged with its small end upward and supporting the slats B. These may be either crosswise or lengthwise of the bed, and the springs may be secured thereto in any desired positions relative to each other. At its upper end the wire out of which the spring is formed is carried across the last coil of the spring some distance beyond, bent as shown at (1, carried back across the coil and beyond it, and bent into hook form, as shown at b, there being an interval, 0, between the end of the hook and October 4, 1879.

the said coil. A bearing, 0, is thus made of considerable spread, the side bars of which are parallel and separated by a space, (1.

The spring is secured to the slats by means of buttons D, having broad heads 6 extending across the space 01 and riveted or clinched to the slats. These buttons should be arranged with their stems at. a distance apart equal, or nearly so, to the length of the bearing G of the spring, so that when the slats are inplace the buttons will be at the bends of the hearing. The base of the spring terminates in a spur, a, fitting in a hole in a base-slat.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that the connection of the spring to the slats B is stable and firm, while it can be readily disconnected by raising the slats, bringing them edge to edge, and passing the buttons out through the interval 0.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bedspring A, having a top'bearing, G, diametrically crossing said spring, and having the end bends, a b, and openings 0 d, in combination with the slats B, having the buttons D, said bearing G and slats B being connected by the buttons passing through the openings 0 d and engaging the bends a b, the whole constructed and arranged to operate as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES T. SEGAR. Witnesses:

J. 'l. MGLOUGHLIN, Tnos. F. CLARKE. 

